The paper attempts to contribute to the discussion of the agricultural support distribution in the framework of Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. Author used European Commission statistics of direct payments to explore the distribution patterns across farm holdings in EU Member...

The aim of the paper was to discuss selected problems of Polish rural areas and agriculture. The main factors slowing down the development of rural areas and agriculture in Poland are unfavourable income situation by comparison to other economy branches, small size of farms (fragmented agrarian...

Aim of study was to determine the state and conditions for development of traditional Podkarpacie products. An analysis was realized by using GUS (Central Statistical Office) statistical data and data from a survey among Podkarpacie region inhabitants as first consumers and critics of...

The aim of this article was to show the best experiences of agri-environmental programme in the EU countries with particular regard paid to the agri-environmental programme which was realized in Poland in years 2004-2006. The data were taken from the Agency for Agriculture Restructuring and...

The aim of this work is to analyze the current state and changes in the human capital level of individual farmers who live in the Masovian voivodeship and to determine certain relations between the human capital level represented by farmers and the economic results of their farms. The paper...

The paper presents main results of a surveying 161 tenants whose opinions concerned advantages and disadvantages of renting an agricultural property as well as their motivations for renting agricultural real property from the Agency of Agricultural Real Property and other sources in the province...

This paper addresses the question of distribution of support from the EU budget and the national budget to agricultural holders in Mazovia region in comparison with Poland as a whole. In the first main section, the characteristics of the agricultural sector in the region, using main sectoral...

Global processes and local areas that have become part of the worldwide economic and social development and part of the process of creating a network of linkages and interdependence in the economic, technological and cultural spheres. The design of the synthetic indicator allows measurement of a...

The aim of this article is to indicate problems connected with the process of building a traditional food products market. Special attention is paid to its weakness ensuing from its small capacity caused by poor knowledge of traditional products among Polish consumers. On the other hand the...

The aim of the paper was to present numbers and proportions of researched rural households which members had run own firm in the past or had not had experience in that field in before the moment of the research. Regional diversification and ownership of a farm were also taken into account as...